Dreadful Acts
The Eddie Dickens Trilogy Book Two

Die Eddie Dickens Trilogie ist herrlich schräg. Wer Charakterentwicklung sucht, ist hier definitiv falsch. Diese Charaktere müssen genau so bleiben, wie sie sind, nämlich völlig durchgeknallt.......more

This is second book of the Eddie Dickens trilogy, and it has many of the same zany characters as the first one, A House Called Awful. Like the first, the prose of this book reads almost as if it was written a century ago. The narrator actively speaks to the reader, reminding them that they are readi......more

Philip Ardagh’s second book in the Eddie Dickens trilogy is called ‘Dreadful Acts’. Our hero Eddie has to cope with his odd parents, plus mad Uncle Jack, owner of the house ‘Awful End’ and even madder Aunt Maud, along with her best friend Malcolm, (or is it Sally?) a stuffed weasel (or stoat)! The st......more

Normally I would give this 3 stars, but because of nostalgia it gets 4. You can look at my review for book number 1, that one counts for the whole trilogy.......more

Dreadful Acts, the second book in Philip Ardagh’s, The Eddie Dickens Trilogy, tells a fictional tale about the witty, ill-fated quests of Eddie Dickens. In this sequel, Eddie Dickens is caught up in a whole mess of trouble seemingly after meeting The Great Zucchini (an escapologist). He is almost b......more